General Chat

Guinevere - indirectly, I think you have summarised & reinforced my earlier comment. So it seems your son has been advised/encouraged to follow your own voting intentions. And good luck to him - whatever he decides.

And now for a little smile! I am assisting a prospective UKIP local Council Candidate by delivering her blurb leaflets door to door. I'm doing this as a favour to the lady whom I have known for many years. She was also my boss at work for a few years. Her current walking stamina restricts her personal involvement in the walk-about.

No, Dermot, he's been encouraged to read and think for himself. He's very intelligent and has several degrees, not the type to blindly follow his parents. I'm not surprised at the conclusions he's come to - no one with an IQ above that of an amoeba would vote UKIP, surely?

Would not vote for any UKiP candidate they are a bunch of racist, homophobic, misogynistic morons.

Strangely enough, I like Nigel Farage, not particularly for the UKIP policies, but for the clarity of his speech.

Other politicians are good at answering questions without actually answering them - if that makes sense & can even proceed further by answering other queries not yet raised.

Too much waffle annoys me greatly.

If you don't like waffle then I fail to understand why you like Farage. He makes a lot of noise without actually saying anything much.

No way :-(

Messrs Cameron & his side-kicks are qualified practitioners of waffle.

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:-D

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Still can't understand you, Dermot. Cameron etc are at least educated and have some idea of how politics works. Farage is a spiv and a chancer.

I'm learning slowly but surely that sometimes my opinion is best kept to myself.

Fortunately, UKIP support is way down from its November peak. At the current rate they will br lucky to get four seats.

Guinevere, Farage was educated at Dulwich College, if you regard the 'best' education being that from a (usually same sex) Public School.

This is my main bugbear. ALL the party leaders - including Natalie Bennett (Green Party), and the vast majority of MP's went to some form of Public/Independent school.

None of them 'represent' me or my ilk, or the majority of the electorate!
Apparently, as a 'working class' person, brought up, as a child in a caravan (just call me trailer trash) I'm apparently badly educated, read the Sun, drink lager and, because I haven't enough money to squirrel away in an offshore account, I don't come into the 'Hardworking People' bracket :-|
Oh - and should be 'grateful' for anything patronisingly 'given' to me by various Governments, like the rise in personal allowance (but not a reduction in National insurance) as for the potential rise in VAT - I'm not meant to realise that that is an incredible tax hike.

Might pep up the party political broadcast though! :-D :-D :-D

Over the years it has become easier for a wider section of people to vote. It has also become easier for more people to stand for election.

Whilst many of our MP's have had an education that most of us couldn't afford, there is nothing in the rule book to say that this must be the case.

This is how we have ended up with a few candidates that some might consider to be unsavoury characters.


Now I wonder what John Langley has planned for the chief whip? :-S :-D

Farage isn't well educated in the way parliament works. He's making wild promises, a lot of which he cannot carry through because it would be illegal. Public school education isn't necessarily an proper education.

I agree, Public School education isn't necessarily a good education, but the 'old boys/girls/parents network' certainly has it's advantages.

I think they're all making wild promises. :-0

What really irks me is the wild, childlike and sometimes personal jibes being flung from certain quarters.
I wouldn't allow that sort of behaviour in a playground, let alone a political platform!!

In answer to the original question,there,e not much difference between a Porn star and an MP.they,re both in it for one thing only, that to get as much cash for themselves as possible,and bugger the electorate.**M**.

I wouldn't vote for a porn aficionado - I wouldn't vote for UKIP either but I'm glad they're in the mix cos I think they've stirred the whole thing up